Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colored folks vote on the Freedom Train...
When the council's meeting broke up, John Lewis strode off alone. His vote was enough in itself to nullify the other members' willingness to take the oath. Under the strict interpretation of the NLRB's General Counsel Robert Denham, every top officer must sign or no affiliated union may come before the NLRB. (This week Dan Tobin signed the affidavit anyway, sent his lawyer to Washington to contend that the Teamsters should be allowed to use the NLRB...
...occasion was the campaign for the by-election in Liverpool's grimy Edge Hill district, where both Labor and Conservatives waited anxiously to see what effect, if any, Britain's crisis might have on Labor's vote. When the votes were counted last week, the score was: Labor, 10,827; Conservative, 8,874; Liberal, 910. In 1945 the Labor Party had carried the Edge Hill district by a margin of 6,039. Last week's vote was a loss of some 2,300 votes for Labor. Said Conservative Party Chairman Lord Woolton: "The drastic lowering...
...Labor Government was jubilant. If the Edge Hill vote meant anything, it meant that the socialists could still count on the workers to give the Labor Party a loyal working-class vote regardless of conditions. Moreover, Prime Minister Attlee, rightly or wrongly, believed that the Labor Government had hit the bottom of the chute, and that its standing with the voters, since it could scarcely go lower, must go up. Noting that Labor has not lost any seat in by-elections since 1945, London's Daily Herald burbled: "It is more than 70 years since a Government has enjoyed...
...Parliament, Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni, who often acts as a Communist cat's-paw, called for a vote of no-confidence in the Government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Communists were preparing to re-enter the Government, where their disruptive power at this critical time would be greatly increased. The vote was postponed, but for Premier de Gasperi it was a close shave...